Top NZ Baby Names of 1934

Margaret (733) and John (855) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1934. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1930s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret733
  2. 2Shirley349
  3. 3Patricia323
  4. 4Mary287
  5. 5Joan241
  6. 6Barbara221
  7. 7Elizabeth216
  8. 8Dorothy192
  9. 9Valerie188
  10. 10Jean175
  11. 11Maureen171
  12. 12June169
  13. 13Beverley163
  14. 14Betty158
  15. 15Helen142
  16. 16Judith142
  17. 17Kathleen136
  18. 18Marie126
  19. 19Joyce125
  20. 20Pamela125
  21. 21Doreen118
  22. 22Colleen116
  23. 23Janet101
  24. 24Heather96
  25. 25Dawn93
  26. 26Lois93
  27. 27Eileen88
  28. 28Audrey87
  29. 29Nancy82
  30. 30Nola79
  31. 31Phyllis79
  32. 32Ngaire78
  33. 33Norma77
  34. 34Alison75
  35. 35Ruth75
  36. 36Noeline74
  37. 37Marion73
  38. 38Pauline73
  39. 39Anne71
  40. 40Frances71
  41. 41Yvonne69
  42. 42Marjorie68
  43. 43Elaine66
  44. 44Fay65
  45. 45Jocelyn64
  46. 46Daphne61
  47. 47Janice60
  48. 48Joy60
  49. 49Ann56
  50. 50Jennifer56

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John855
  2. 2William520
  3. 3Robert440
  4. 4James373
  5. 5Brian371
  6. 6Ronald354
  7. 7Peter347
  8. 8David340
  9. 9Donald294
  10. 10Ian282
  11. 11Raymond209
  12. 12George205
  13. 13Thomas189
  14. 14Colin185
  15. 15Kenneth170
  16. 16Graham169
  17. 17Barry166
  18. 18Alan156
  19. 19Richard148
  20. 20Trevor138
  21. 21Gordon130
  22. 22Allan129
  23. 23Leslie129
  24. 24Bruce127
  25. 25Douglas126
  26. 26Keith123
  27. 27Arthur122
  28. 28Charles121
  29. 29Edward114
  30. 30Michael110
  31. 31Noel107
  32. 32Graeme102
  33. 33Ivan99
  34. 34Francis96
  35. 35Norman96
  36. 36Patrick89
  37. 37Desmond86
  38. 38Walter85
  39. 39Neil81
  40. 40Rex80
  41. 41Albert79
  42. 42Eric79
  43. 43Maurice79
  44. 44Anthony78
  45. 45Henry78
  46. 46Alexander75
  47. 47Frederick75
  48. 48Mervyn74
  49. 49Murray72
  50. 50Roy69

About this data: figures come from Department of Internal Affairs birth registrations for 1954-2025. The DIA only publishes a name for a given year when at least 10 babies were registered with it, so rarer names - and rarer spellings - are missing entirely, and a name can drop out of the record in quieter years. Spelling variants are counted separately, and counts reflect first names as registered.